Talk:Internet activism
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The problem you are talking about is called the digital divide, or more generally, access barriers. If you want to debate it, you should probably go to the talk page about it.
I am currently trying to edit content for style and grammar, and add sources. Because some of the content is "true but unsourced," I have been trying to add sources for unsourced statements. I changed focus of the "Growth" section and changed its title accordingly, and added the "Types" section.
I looked at the "Internet resistance" page, and due to its style and lack of sources, I am considering deleting it rather than merging it. Someone may want to add a section to Internet Activism that discusses the characteristics of the Internet as conducive to resistance, similar to the section "The Internet as a Site of Resistance."
Forcsc300 (talk) 19:45, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
There has been a battle in cyberspace over the years to clear out some of the fascist sites and to stop people from using the internet to promote race hatred.
This has been perceived and presented as an attack on freedom of speech but the contrary argument has been that members of racial minorities have a right to live their lives without fear and intimidation and using the internet to attack them is no different from using a biro and the lavatory wall - it needs to be cleaned off.
Fascist organisations have also published the names and addresses of "targets" who have subsequently had their property attacked and been subject to abuse and physical attack.
The abuse and threats have also been directed against socialists, gay people and disabled people
How one can criticize some activity just "because poor people, minorities and elderly citizens either lack access or are inexperienced in the new technologies"?
This is absolutely ridiculous. People are different.
-- Hey, I've just created a perpetual motion machine!
-- Well, we gotta have to destroy it.
-- Why?!
-- Because poor people, minorities and elderly citizens either lack access or are inexperienced in the new technologies.
[edit] Local?
"As a local example, in 1996, volunteers opposing the commercial aviation conversion of the former Marine Corps Air Station, El Toro in Orange County, CA"
So you are aware this is not exclusively an American site yes? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Iam jesse (talk • contribs) 07:42, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
